Austin votes to sell 16 percent share in nuclear plant
Austin voters approve selling the city's 16 percent stake in the South Texas Nuclear Project after years of cost overruns and delays. The council forms a negotiation team to seek buyers among partners Houston Lighting & Power and other utilities, setting sale criteria and price.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
South Texas
Bay City
Houston Lighting & Power
Prin
Cipal
Seven Council
City Council
Houston
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Terlingua Chili Cookoff Fans 40,000 Fans and Fame
The 15th Wick Fowler Memorial World Championship Chili Cookoff near Terlingua drew windblown crowds and a boisterous party atmosphere as wine beer and spirits flowed. California dominates the modern scene after breaking from Texas with the International Chili Society contest now a big money game. Glen Womack and son Kelly of Odessas Permian Tank and Manufacturing run the Tastebud Terminators and critique the California show as commercial and costly despite a $40 000 prize pool.
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Chihuahuan
Terlingua
Wick Fowler
Texas
Desert
California
Chili Appreciation Society International
International Chili Society
Glen Womack
Kelly
Handy Man Special Nuke Ad Sparks City Hall Mystery
A Friday Austin paper advertised a “Handy Man Special. 400megawatt Nuke” in the Miscellaneous For Sale section. The original box item was offered with take over payments and a phone number, 477-6511, linked to City Hall, where officials were unsure who placed the ad.
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Austin (Ap
Handy Man
Austin American-Statesman
City Hall
Reagan backs extending Voting Rights Act with caveats
President Reagan said he would accept a Senate compromise to extend the Voting Rights Act and sign the version passed by the House 389 to 24. He urged preserving the Act’s current intent test, while civil rights leaders favoring the effects test. The Senate plan to act next year faces his outlined changes.
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Curt Matthews
Baltimore Sun
Washington
Senate
House
Reagan
Congress
House of Representatives
Reds in Mexico Take on PRI in Border Municipal Elections
AP Special by Le Killgore reports the Mexican Communist Party contesting three border towns Ciudad Acuna Piedras Negras and Jimenez in Coahuila ahead of the December 6 municipal vote. PRI acknowledges the challenge as peaceful campaigns use radio posters and promises while PCM contemplates both ballot power and possible armed action if needs arise.
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LE Killgore
San Angelo
Standard-Times
Ciudad Acuna
Mexico
Latin America
United States
Texas
Mexican Communist Party
PCM
Piedras Negras
Jimenez
del Rio
Eagle Pass
Rio Grande
Coahuila
Big Bend
Laredo
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Jose Aranda Reynes
Communist Party
Acuna
Aranda
Unified Socialist Party of Mexico Formed by Five Leftist Groups
In Mexico City the Mexican Communist Party and four smaller leftist factions merged to form the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico. Delegates chose the hammer and sickle as emblem and set a plan to field a presidential candidate under Democracy and Socialism. The party aims to register for the July 1982 election, challenging the PRI if permitted. About 400,000 members across the five groups.
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Mexico City
Mexican Communist Party
Socialist Party of Mexico
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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Max Faulkner
Chile
Reds
Evaristo Perez Arreila
Communist Rally
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